Notice how calm the Israeli children as the siren announces that bombs are being launched at their city. Their song perfectly illustrates their life, they were born into a situation where their lives are threatened on a daily basis… enough is enough!
Israel
AIPAC
Last night I got back from the AIPAC high school summit. I went with 7 other kids from Milken, 7 out of the 8 (me included) went on TIF.
Over all it was a fun experience, I liked spending time with people that I have not spent time with since Israel and I also really enjoyed the free Hadag Nachash that AIPAC arranged for us.
Besides spending time with TIF people and Hadag Nachash, most of the time was spent learning about AIPAC and “lobbying” for Israel. Learning about AIPAC was fun and important, but the whole “lobbying” thing was a waste of time. We went to see one of congressman Waxman’s staff, it was kind of point less since she knew much more about AIPAC and US Israel realtions than most of the people “teaching” us about this stuff at the conference.
There is a difference
Look at the Arab protest, then watch the Jewish response…
(this video is from march 2008, the Muslims are supporting this terrorist attack and the death of Jews, the Jews are singing songs of peace)
Google Translator Works for Hebrew!!!!!!!!!
For the longest time the best online Hebrew translator was milon.co.il. Unfortunaly milon.co.il can only translate one word at a time. However it looks like Google Translator now works for Hebrew!!! Let the homework cheating help commence.
Israel is not the only one
Did you know that Israel is not the only place where Jews self govern? There is region in Russia where Yiddish is an official language and judaism is taught in the public schools. This place is called the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and even though Jews now make up only about 1% of its population they once made up more, also it looks like the Jewish community there is growing.